Welcome to our survey!

Hi! We are a research team of George Washington University. This survey will ask you simple questions regarding your purchase preference for used cars.

This survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. It can be stopped and picked up at any time. Your personal information will be kept private and won’t be shared with anyone else. The survey is subdivided in five sub-sections:

  • Current vehicle information

  • Future vehicle information

  • Choice Questions

  • Knowledge of electric vehicles

  • Demographic Information

We greatly appreciate your participation!

This study is about the purchase of your next vehicle.

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Below are some basic questions about your household!

Please answer to the best of your knowledge

How many of each type of vehicle do you have in your household?

Gasoline Hybrid Plug-in Hybrid Electric Other
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Below are some basic questions about your primary vehicle

Please answer to the best of your knowledge

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How often you use different transportation types to get around.

Please answer to the best of your knowledge and note that this does not include travel that is for work(for example, if you are a professional chauffeur, driver or a delivery person)

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This section asks a few questions about your future vehicle.

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Educational Page

Great Work! Now that you have shared a bit about yourself, we’d like you to consider a scenario in which you can choose a car from a set of cars with different attributes.

Let’s learn about the attributes.

Types of Powertrain Powertrain Definition
Conventional Gasoline engine only.
Hybrid (HEVs) Smaller gasoline engine + electric motor + small battery. Gasoline engine recharges the battery, fuel consumption is reduced
Plug-in Hybrid (PHEVs) Hybrid that can also be plugged in to an electrical outlet to charge the battery. Runs on electricity for a short range (10 – 40 miles), then switches to gasoline
Electric (BEVs) Electric motor only. Must be plugged into an electrical outlet to be refueled
Range - The maximum distance a vehicle can travel in a full tank/ fully charged battery.
Price - The final price paid for the vehicle in dollars, including all taxes and fees.
Model Year - Model/Manufacturing year is the actual year the vehicle was built.
Mileage - The number of miles vehicle has traveled while in operation
Operating Cost (Equivalent Gasoline Fuel Efficiency) - Cost in cents per mile driven of fueling the vehicle. The equivalent fuel efficiency in miles per gallon (MPG) of a conventional gasoline vehicle is displayed in parenthesis. (Assumes gasoline costs$3.30/gallon and electricity costs $0.16/kWh).

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Choice Question Demonstration

We will now begin the choice tasks. We will show you six choice questions starting on the next page. Below is an example of the type of questions you will be asked.


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Below are a few questions about electric vehicles which we will only use for analyzing our survey data.

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Demographic information

We’re almost done! We’d just like to ask just a few more questions about you which we will only use for analyzing our survey data.

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